(CHASSIDISM).

AUCTION 62 | Thursday, June 26th, 2014 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic and Ceremonial Art

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Lot 61

(CHASSIDISM).

(Menachem Mendel of Premishlan). Darchei Yesharim [customs for Sabbath eve including kavanoth for the mikvah, the Baal Shem Tov’s commentary on Psalm 107, Hanhagoth Yesharoth and Moreh Mikdash with citations from the Maggid of Mehzritch]. ff. (16). [See Vinograd, Russia or Poland, 42-3; Stefansky, Chassiduth no. 145]. Russia-Poland, 1839. <<* Bound with>> : (Eliezer ben Judah of Worms) Yoreh Chataim [a hand-book of atonements for specific sins, based upon the principles of the Chassidei Aschkenaz]. ff. (20). [Unrecored by Vinograd]. Russia-Poland, 1857. Previous owners’ marks. Contemporary marbled boards, worn. Sm. 8vo.

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Est: $600 - $900

The first work is an important early Chassidic text by a disciple of the Baal Shem Tov who was renowned for his asceticism, maintaining a vow of silence for twelve years. He emigrated to Eretz Israel and is buried in Tiberias. See T. M. Rabinowicz, Encyclopedia of Hassidism p. 309; and A. Rubinstein, Tarbiz, Vol. 35 (1965) pp. 174-91. The date and pagination of this work differs from both Vinograd and Stefansky. The second work is based on a text in the Rokeach and other sources, and originally issued under the title Yesod HaTeshuvah (Cracow, c. 1585). Here it is reworked without the name of Isaac Ellis, the original editor (see Mehlman 951-3 and Rosenthal, Yodea Sepher 734). It includes additional materials: The ethical will of R. Judah HaChasid and Derech Tovim by Hirsch Tzvi ben Zundel Moshe Chanoch of Lublin pertaining to the afterlife, wedding customs, visiting the sick, etc. The final leaf contains a poem by R. Jonathan Eybescheutz.